Amazon James Hamilton：云计算的规模经济.pdf

Cloud-Computing Economies of Scale Self Managing Database Systems James Hamilton, 2009/3/29 VP Distinguished Engineer, Amazon Web Services e: James@ w: /jrh/work b: Agenda • Services economies of scale • Services != enterprise IT • Speeds, feeds, trends in servers high-scale services • Selection S/W H/W techniques used to scale • Summary 2009/3/29 2 Background biases • 15 years in database engine development – Lead architect on IBM DB2 – Architect on SQL Server • Past 5 years in services – Led Exchange Hosted Services Team – Architect on the Windows Live Platform – Architect on Amazon Web Services • Talk does not necessarily represent positions of current or past employers 2009/3/29 3 Services Economies of Scale • Substantial economies of scale possible • 2006 comparison of very large service with small/mid-sized: (~1000 servers): Large Service [$13/Mb/s/mth]: $0.04/GB Medium [$95/Mb/s/mth]: $0.30/GB (7.1x) Large Service: $4.6/GB/year (2x in 2 DC) Medium: $26.00/GB/year* (5.7x) Large Service: Over 1.000 servers/admin Enterprise: ~140 servers/admin (7.1x) • High cost of entry – Physical plant expensive: 15MW roughly $200M • Summary: significant economies of scale but at very high cost of entry – Small number of large players likely outcome 2009/3/29 4 Services Di